Development Officer Annual Report 2020
submitted by Lindsay Brown
Current Roster
- Sara White, member (2021)
- Z. Sylvia Yang, member (2021)
- Corinne Forstot-Burke, member (2021)
- Susannah Cleveland, ex-officio
- Tracey Rudnick, ex-officio
- Elizabeth Hille Cribs, ex-officio
- Liza Vick, ex-officio
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
- Raise funds to honor outgoing president Mark McKnight
- Goal area: Value of the Profession; Objective 1: Increase the visibility of MLA among library and music orgs
- Flexibility to create ad hoc funds as necessary, such as MLA Emergency Fund
- Goal area: Organizational excellence
- Improve membership perks in wake of publisher changes (Ashgate): secured JPASS at 50% discount
- Goal area: Membership
List of Future Goals
- Ensure new funds are fully endowed before any grants are awarded/disbursed.
- Organizational excellence: develop and sustain the necessary resources to ensure the vitality of the Association, its programs, and services.
- Maintain or increase individual giving
- Organizational excellence: develop and sustain the necessary resources.
- Continue to improve planned giving and increase membership.
- Improve annual meeting sponsorship opportunities and benefits for corporate members/patrons, individual members, chapters, roundtables, etc.